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Richard Wolin
Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the unstated agenda of neoconservative cultural theory and a discussion…
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Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized…
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Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual…
This study reconstructs the relationship between philosophy and politics in the way in which Heidegger’s failure as a politician influenced the redevelopment of philosophy in the 1930s. The author also…
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Entering into the debate between three schools of thought - the Frankfurt School, existentialism and poststructuralism - this text reflects on the ways in which Enlightenment precepts, rather than being…
Richard Wolin’s The Politics of Being has played a seminal role in the international debate over the consequences of Heidegger’s Nazism. In this edition, Wolin provides a new preface addressing…
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher?
An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin’s complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish…
Richard Wolin (City University of New York)
This volume is a collection of essays by Richard Wolin, a leading political theorist and intellectual historian. They focus on European Political Thought, particularly with figures associated with the Frankfurt…
Herbert Marcuse
Offers a testimony concerning the first attempt to fuse Marxism and existentialism. This work presents an insight concerning Herbert Marcuse’s early philosophical evolution.
Karl Loewith
Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for…
Richard Wolin,Karl Lowith,Hans Jonas,Herbert Marcuse
Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century’s greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany’s brightest…
Karl Lowith
Cass R. Sunstein,Carissa Veliz,Ekaterina Pravilova
A Meteor of Intelligent Substance
Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is
Invaluable
Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.
Liberties, a journal…
